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Plan to outsource Australia’s visa processing would be dumped under Labor

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“It shouldn’t be done for private profit,” Labor’s immigration spokesman says, as the party reveals it would ditch plans to offload Australia’s visa processing system to the private sector, potentially worth more than $3 billion to the winning company.

Undocumented Trump golf club employee doesn’t regret speaking out

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Victorina Morales said she felt she had to stand up for co-workers without legal documents who have been ridiculed by a supervisor

A Guatemalan living in the US without documentation who says she faced abusive working conditions as a maid at Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf club does not regret speaking out, even though she might lose her job and be deported.

Related: Court refuses to allow Trump asylum ban for immigrants entering illegally

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Social media sites should focus less on nipples and more on Nazis | Arwa Mahdawi

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Tumblr, long known as a safe space for sexual subcultures, has a new policy on ‘female-presenting nipples’. Maybe it should rethink its priorities

Keep your breasts off the internet, please! This week the social networking site Tumblr announced it was banning adult content. Starting December 17, porn is not permitted on the platform. The adult content ban also extends to images of “real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples.”

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Residents fear losing Capistrano Beach as storms chip away at their ‘piece of paradise’

Walking along a battered stretch of her beloved beach, Sandie Iverson ticked off the destruction from recent storms. The boardwalk and a seawall collapsed. Palm trees were ripped from their roots.

As winter rains alight on Southern California, Iverson couldn’t help but wonder what fresh calamity…